Ghana’s first transgender, Angelina Coleman, popularly known as ‘Madina Broni’ has revealed she would be getting married soon.

In an exclusive interview on Joy News,viewed by ModernGhana, the 26 years old transgender said she would soon be tying the knot with a Ghanaian-Belgium pastor who she has been dating for eight months now.

“I am attracted to men and I have a boyfriend who is in his late forties. I was surprised because I never believed I would date or marry a pastor but he proposed about eight months ago and it was a very wonderful feeling,” she said.

She disclosed that she has been accepted by the family of the soon to be husband and stressed that plans are underway for their wedding.

“We are making plans towards a big wedding and his family has accepted me for who I am with his mom coming down on May 27 to see me,” she intimated.

Angelina Coleman for the past three years has been living as a woman.

She began taking medications for her sex change after traveling to Spain where she started the process of her transformation from male to female and underwent sexual reassignment surgery.

According to her, she believes it was part of God’s plan to change from her to a complete woman.

DALLAS — “Breakthrough,” the incredible true story of one mother’s steadfast love against all odds, highlights the power of adoption – and shows that love comes in many different forms.

Produced by DeVon Franklin (“Miracles from Heaven”) and directed by Roxann Dawson (“House of Cards,” “Bates Motel”), “Breakthrough” recounts the true story of John Smith, who in 2015 ventured onto thin ice on a frozen Missouri lake. They crashed through, and John sank to the bottom. He was rescued by firemen after 15 minutes and was rushed to a nearby hospital. With a body temperature of 88 degrees and no pulse, he was pronounced dead.

However, when John’s mother Joyce (played by Chrissy Mets) showed up and prayed over his body, he began to show flickers of life. Miraculously, the teen recovered without neurological impairment.

John, played by Hispanic actor Marcel Ruiz, was adopted from Guatemala – a fact that Dawson told The Gospel Herald drew her to the story.

“I have an adopted daughter and I also have a biological daughter as well,” she shared. “And I have two photos of them in my office. My photo is when my biological daughter was handed to me for the first time, and the other is when I held my adopted daughter from China for the first time. My expression in both photos is the same.

“I want people to understand that love is the same, our children come to us in different ways,” she continued. “They’re both of my babies, and I love them. So, I identified with Joyce and her love for John, even when John couldn’t understand her love and questioned his abandonment. All of that rang very true for me.”

“Breakthrough” is based on Joyce’s 2017 book “The Impossible,” which documents how she refused to give up hope that God would work a miracle over her son. The film is releasing just in time for Easter – a movie Franklin told GH was intentional.

“We need this story right now because we need hope,” he said. “I think so often we let our differences to keep us apart. And I think this movie says that even if we have differences, we can still come together, we can still pray together, we can still love one another. And I do think that this movie at this time is really perfectly divinely timed, so to speak.”

Franklin told GH that a number of miracles occurred on the set of “Breakthrough,” adding: “A lot of people think Hollywood is a place that has no faith. That is absolutely not true. You’ve got to have faith to get a movie made because there are so many obstacles in our way.”

“When you look at the vision and you look at the production value, I mean, it’s just amazing to me,” he continued. “So for me personally, I look at that and say, ‘Wow, it’s incredible what can happen when we come together and really put the story first.'”

While “Breakthrough” is an overtly Christian film, Franklin said it will resonate with all audiences because everyone – regardless of their faith or background – experiences struggles.

“It’s just a really good film and a great story and, and it’s true,” he said. “I think it’ll hit people in different ways, but it’s certainly not just preaching to the choir.”

China is renewing and doubling efforts to nationalize Christianity. CBN

Undercover police and Chinese government officials violently arrested Christian worshipers after raiding a church in Henan province amid an ongoing crackdown on religion in the Communist country.

ChinaAid, a Texas-based nonprofit group that documents Christian persecution in China, reports that the raid occured on Sunday morning at a church in Zhumadian, Henan.

“Some were undercover cops, and others wore a uniform,” a worshiper who wasn’t named recounted. “They snapped pictures while bursting in. Then, they cut off the service.”

Several of the more than 20 Christians worshiping there were taken into custody, according to the report. In the process, officials pushed a woman to the ground and knocked a child off a chair. Additionally, some worshipers recalled how officials threatened their jobs, their security, and even their lives.

“They attempted to grab Sister Sang’s iPad and cellphone without showing their IDs. Sister Sang said, ‘This is my personal stuff.’ They ignored her and continued to seize our stuff. Brother Qian witnessed this and took over the iPad and cellphone. Officers immediately targeted Brother Qian, and he was immediately under their control because he did not resist,” another person who was at the church on Sunday said.

The arrested Christians were taken to the Xiyuan Police Station, where they asked Lü Guang, the associate director of the religious affairs bureau: “What crime did we commit? Why did you take away our friends?”

Sister Sang asked, “We are Chinese citizens and have freedom of religion. Why do you keep track of our personal information?”

The believers, who were held in custody for over three hours, were reportedly told that while they do have religious freedom, they must submit to the authority of the government and only meet at approved venues.

“Our jobs, lives, and even security are all affected severely,” the Christians told China Aid.

In 2017, China passed tighter restrictions regarding religious gatherings, teachings, and buildings in efforts to reserve state power and prevent “Western infiltration.”

At the time, Chinese President Xi Jinping said religions could operate only if they were “Chinese in orientation” and that Beijing “must provide active guidance to religions so that they can adapt themselves to socialist society”

While underground churches have been heavily targeted for years, fully registered churches have been targeted as well, with officials taking down rooftop crosses and arresting believers. Officials have also banned children from attending church services and prevented online retailers from selling the Bible.

Despite such persecution, Christianity continues to see rapid growth in the country. Fenggang Yang, a China expert at Purdue University, predicts that the communist nation could have as many as 160 million Christians by 2025 and 247 million by 2032.

A mainland Chinese woman, that worked as a prostitute in Hong Kong, looks out from inside a police van September 19, 2002, before being sent back to China. A total of 85 prostitutes from mainland China were arrested during a raid at the territory’s Shum Shui Po District, Hong Kong police said. (Photo: REUTERS/Bobby Yip)

“Pastors” in Pakistan are being paid by sex traffickers to find brides for Chinese men among their church congregations, a disturbing new report has revealed.

The Associated Press reports that sex traffickers offer Christian parents in Pakistan thousands of dollars to give girls in marriage to Chinese men. Pakistan’s Christian community makes a vulnerable target, notes the report, as the religious group is among the country’s most impoverished and makes up just 2.5% of the population.

Christian pastors are paid by sex traffickers to preach to their congregations with promises of wealth in exchange for their daughters. Parents receive a few thousand dollars and are promised about $280 a month in future payments as well as a Chinese visa for a male family member. They’re also told their new sons-in-law are wealthy Christian converts.

However, that’s rarely the case, notes the Associated Press, which interviewed over a dozen Christian Pakistani brides or would-be brides who fled before exchanging vows.

Once the brides arrive in China, many of them forced to live in rural, isolated towns. With a significant language barrier, they are subject to abuse and forced to rely on a translation app to communicate with their husbands.

Muqadas Ashraf, who was 16 when her parents married her off to a Chinese man last year, returned to Pakistan less than five months later, pregnant and seeking a divorce.

“It is all fraud and cheating. All the promises they make are fake,” she said.

One pastor who leads an evangelical church in Gujranwala, a city north of Lahore, told the AP of a fellow pastor who tells his flock, “God is happy because these Chinese boys convert to Christianity. They are helping the poor Christian girls.” He revealed that in that city alone, over 100 girls have disappeared.

Rizwan Rashid, a parishioner at the city’s Roman Catholic St. John’s Church, said that two weeks earlier, a car pulled up to him outside the church gates. Two Pakistani men and a Chinese woman inside asked him if he knew of any girls who want to marry a Chinese man.

“They told me her life would be great,” he said. They were willing to pay him to help, but he said he refused because the church’s priest often warns his congregation against such marriages.

The AP notes that in Pakistan, girls are seen as less desirable than boys and as a burden because the bride’s family must pay a dowry and the cost of the wedding when they marry. By contrast, potential Chinese grooms offer parents money and pay for all wedding expenses.

Ijaz Alam Augustine, the human rights and minorities minister in Pakistan’s Punjab province, told the AP that “greed is really responsible for these marriages.”

“I have met with some of these girls and they are very poor,” he said.

The AP reports that since October, thousands of girls have been forced into sham marriages, some as young as 13 years old.

In April, Human Rights Watch called on China and Pakistan to take action to end bride trafficking, pointing to “increasing evidence that Pakistani women and girls are at risk of sexual slavery in China.”

Last month, the embassy said China was cooperating with Pakistani law enforcement agencies to crack down on illegal matchmaking, Reuters reports.

On Monday, Pakistani authorities arrested 12 suspected members of a prostitution ring taking young Pakistani women to China, according to the South China Morning Post. A senior official at the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Lahore, capital of Punjab province, said a female Chinese national and a fake Pakistani priest were among the detainees

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U.S. Jews are more likely than Christians to say that U.S. President Donald Trump favors Israelis more than the Palestinians, according to a Pew Research poll released on Monday.

Some 42 percent of American Jews say Trump is favoring Israelis more than the Palestinians, while 47 percent of them say he has been striking the right balance between the two.

Meanwhile, 59 percent of U.S. Christians say Trump has been striking the right balance between the Israelis and Palestinians, while only 26 percent say the president is favoring Israelis more than the Palestinians.

Within the Christian demographic, 62 percent of Protestants say Trump has been striking the right balance between the two groups, while 51 percent of Catholics say it is the same. Seventy-two percent of Evangelicals say the president has struck the right balance.

The Trump administration’s directives include recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017 and relocating the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv five months later; withdrawing from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in May 2018 and reimposing sanctions lifted under the accord, in addition to enacting added penalties against Tehran; and recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights in March.

White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner said last month that the administration will release its highly anticipated Mideast peace plan for the Israelis and Palestinians after Israel forms a new government and after the Islamic holiday of Ramadan, which started on Sunday and continues to June 4.

“I will bless those who bless you And curse him that curses you; And all the families of the earth Shall bless themselves by you.” Genesis 12:3 (The Israel Bible)

An ICEJ delegation visited Israeli communities along the Gaza border and viewed a new specially designed ATV security vehicle donated through the ICEJ to a local moshav. Credit: ICEJ.

After Israel absorbed as many as 700 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip over the weekend, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) sent a delegation to the western Negev region on Monday to assess the updated security needs of local Israeli communities and how best to help them prepare for any future escalations.

The Christian Embassy has already donated more than 75 portable bomb shelters to the Gaza periphery towns and villages. On Monday, the ICEJ ordered another three more bomb shelters for the region.

The ICEJ also is donating 20 protective vests for Yatar volunteers from the Negev who risk their lives working alongside the regular security forces to keep civilians safe during times of tension.

Moreover, the ICEJ delegation viewed all-terrain firefighting equipment, as well as brand-new specially designed ATV security vehicles that Christians have recently donated to Israeli communities through ICEJ.

“Hopefully, the ceasefire reached last night will hold, but the terror militias in Gaza are notoriously unpredictable and untrustworthy,” said ICEJ president Jürgen Bühler. “However, our team’s visit today has confirmed once more that our humanitarian investment in these vulnerable Israeli communities is comforting families and saving lives.”

Elan Isaacson, chief security officer for the Eshkol Region, told the ICEJ team that “after 18 years of experience and all the bomb shelters groups like you have placed around the region, the number of people killed and injured from the Gaza rockets is substantially down.”

Tamir Idan, mayor of the Sedot Negev Regional Council, also hosted the ICEJ team in Kibbutz Alumim before heading off to a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the latest escalation of rocket fire from Gaza.

A ceasefire was agreed upon early Monday morning. Israel reportedly responded throughout the barrage by striking Hamas observation posts, warehouses and weapons’ facilities in Gaza.

Reports from Gaza indicate that 23 Gazans were killed and 60 wounded in the Israeli airstrikes.

“He said to me, “What do you see?” And I answered, “I see a menorah all of gold, with a bowl above it. The lamps on it are seven in number, and the lamps above it have seven pipes;” Zechariah 4:2 (The Israel Bible)

A replica of the golden menorah in front of Titus’ Arch in Rome. (Courtesy)

A small group of Christians’ remarkable act of faith has ambitious aspirations: to fix the theft of the golden menorah from the Temple by Titus in 70 CE. In addition, they are seeking to return some of the Divine love that has sustained Germany despite the horrific crimes perpetrated on the Jews in the Holocaust.

This ambition is embodied in a 265-pound gold menorah set to land in Israel in time for the country’s 71st Independence Day and encapsulated by the story of the men behind the project.

Alexander Dietz is a German Christian who has been volunteering in Israel for over three years. Dietz was raised in a secular home with no religious affiliations. He became deeply troubled as a young man and was living a lifestyle that was unhealthy for him physically and spiritually. The situation became dire and he had what he called a “spiritual crisis.” His search led him first to Zen Buddhism and to relocate to Dresden. He came under the care of a physiotherapist, a 55-year-old woman he described as “mommy.”

“She made soup for me and listened to my stories,” Dietz told Breaking Israel News. “One time, she said, ‘God can heal you.’’ I didn’t believe her but she was so nice that when she invited me to a church, I went with her. It was very strange but I went again and even again. I stayed friends with her. I helped her around the house and she continued to make really yummy soup. One night, I was having a real crisis and she and a friend prayed for me. I can’t explain it but I felt the heavens open. Something fell away from my heart and I realized that God was a true healer.”

He fixed me but I realized right away that it meant that my journey was just starting. I left everything at the age of 28. All I had was a room and a Bible but I was the happiest I had ever been.

Dietz is a devout Christian and has a strong belief in Jesus but, through his Bible study, he realized that this necessarily connected him to the Jews.

“It hit me that here I was, reading the Torah of the Jewish People. I was reading about the Jewish fathers and mothers, Israel, and Jerusalem. I realized the Moshiach is the Moshiach for everyone. The Jewish people are waiting for the Moshiach so there must be something for me to find there. Of course, there is a lot of talk about whether he already came but we are all still waiting for Moshiach. Whether it is the first time or the second time, this idea of Moshiach should be what brings Christians and Jews together. We need to join forces to prepare for Moshiach. We each have a different part in God’s redemption plan for the whole world but we have to remember that but God is One.”

This renewed journey led Dietz to his soulmate and their honeymoon in the Holy Land. His return to the Church led him to discover the damage replacement theology had wreaked on Christianity.

“Replacement theology is the basis of antisemitism and is bad for the Jews,” Dietz said. “But it is much worse for the Christians. It affected our faith in Jesus. Demonic influences entered the Church. I always ask Hashem why he allowed this.”

Dietz prayed for and received an answer. He noted that the changes he had witnessed in recent years, the growing connection between faith-based Zionism among Christians and Jews showed him that we are at a pivotal point in history when a great change is developing for both religions.

“It wasn’t yet time to remove replacement theology from the world,” he said. “Now is the time for Christianity to move away from replacement theology and to move back to connecting with Israel.”

Dietz joined with 11 friends in a group called ‘Reforma-Tzion’. The name is a play on words based on the Protestant Reformation, which was begun by Martin Luther in 1516, exactly 500 years prior to the formation of their group.

“We needed a new reformation, one that was based on Zion,” Dietz said. “Martin Luther had some of the Holy Spirit, a real encounter with God. But at the end of his life, he became antisemitic because the Jews refused to accept Jesus. Hitler based his antisemitism on Martin Luther. We needed to fix that. Christians don’t need to reform Israel. We need to fix ourselves, to bring into Christianity a revelation of Israel, where the Bible started.”

While volunteering, Dietz discovered that there were approximately 150,000 Holocaust survivors living in Israel. Dietz also discovered that he had a personal connection to the Holocaust.

“My grandfather was very old,” Dietz said. “We knew that like all Germans his age he had fought in the war. But he never spoke about it. When he was sick and it was clear that he was going to be leaving the world, he suddenly pulled out a box full of medals including some Nazi medals. It was a major thing in his life but he refused to speak about it. But for us, the Holocaust suddenly became very personal.”

A Jewish-Israeli friend help Dietz put this into a different perspective.

“The worst enemies of Israel have the greatest opportunity now to be Israel’s closest friends,” Dietz said. “In Christianity, we call it ‘Grace’ but in Hebrew, you call it Chesed. Chesed is why I even exist. Clearly, the only reason Germany still exists in God’s world is because of Chesed.”

“If you are the recipient of such love, you have to return it,” Dietz said. “And the only way to do that toward God is to pass it along to your fellow man.”

Studies have shown that Holocaust survivors suffer from a prevalence of social, economic, and health problems and Dietz decided to become an active part of helping with these difficulties. He engages in a wide range of volunteer activities but much of his focus is on activities that bring joy to Holocaust survivors through the Yad L’Ezra organization.

Dietz and his wife also connect with German Christian groups who come to Israel.

Dietz noted that the number of Holocaust survivors is dropping each year as their generation fades away, but the lesson is becoming more important. He pointed to disturbing political developments in Europe and America, in which hate, extremism, and rejection of God seem to be getting stronger.

“The only way not to be deceived again, the only way to recognize an evil ruler like Haman or Hitler, is by relying on what the Bible calls the ‘pupil of God’s eye.’”

Dietz was, of course, referring Israel as is referred to throughout the Bible, most notably in the Book of Zechariah.

For thus said the lord of Hosts—He who sent me after glory—concerning the nations that have taken you as spoil: “Whoever touches you touches the pupil of his own eye. Zechariah 2:12

He explained his interpretation of the phrase, noting that history requires a greater-than-human perspective spanning many generations.

“The only way for the nations not to be deceived by bad rulership, to see current events from God’s perspective, is to connect to God through the people who are connected to Hashem, through His values and His truth.”

Dietz noted that any nation that has treated Israel and the Jews badly, including Germany, has suffered in return.

“Even today, Germany has confused who is the enemy,” Dietz said. “Germany is turning their back on Israel yet again.”

“Israel is, like other nations, full of good and bad,” Dietz explained. “But siding with Israel is not a matter of judging. We aren’t glorifying Israel for its own sake. Our Bible identifies God as the God of Israel. It is the identity of Hashem as Christians see him in the Bible. Christians and Jews, we need each other.”

Dietz is now involved in a most remarkable project. While in Israel, he encountered Bart Repko, a Dutch Christian who had taken it upon himself to enact the prophecy of praying for the peace of Jerusalem by praying at the Kotel (Western Wall) every day. As a student of history, Repko was aware of the many injustices perpetrated against the Jews in the name of religion.

“He longed to fix the injustices by praying but also through acts,” Dietz said. “He had a revelation that we needed to fix the theft of the Menorah, God’s light, by Titus.”

Repko has since passed away but the small Reforma-Tzion group has made his ambitions a reality. The Menorah Project required €120,000 in private donations and 18 months to create but they succeeded: a 265-pound gold-plated duplicate of the menorah depicted on the Arch of Titus in Rome is now on its way to Israel. Like the menorah of Titus, the replica was made with several of the branches broken.

“We want the menorah to stand as a reminder to Christians that we broke something,” Dietz said. “This can be a sign of our repentance. The Jews have returned but the Christians need to fix what we broke, to return what we stole.”

“We saw that the stealing of the menorah in 70 CE was not just stealing of gold,” Dietz said. “After stealing the menorah, Rome declared themselves as the city of God, the true Israel. God never left Israel but we need to return what was stolen. Everything needs to return to the source, where it began.”

The menorah is being returned along the same route that it was stolen away. Last Wednesday, the menorah from Germany stood in front of the Arch of Titus. It is currently on its way from Greece to Haifa where it will be received in a joyous ceremony. On Tuesday, it will be received in Jerusalem in time for Israel’s Independence day which begins on Wednesday evening.

“Come then, put a curse upon this people for me, since they are too numerous for me; perhaps I can thus defeat them and drive them out of the land. For I know that he whom you bless is blessed indeed, and he whom you curse is cursed.” Numbers 22:6 (The Israel Bible)

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On Friday afternoon, pro-Israel Nigerian Pastor Rex Ajenifuja spoke out strongly against a group of his fellow Christian clergy members who he claims were sent by the BDS movement to criticize Israel. In an exclusive video created for Breaking Israel News, Pastor Ajenifuja explains why he believes the bishops from South Africa are lying about the true nature of Israel.

For the convenience of our readers who may have difficulty understanding some of Pastor Ajenifuja’s Nigerian accent, the video has been almost entirely transcribed below.

“Good afternoon. My name is Rex Ajenifuja. I’m a pastor from Nigeria and I’m also the Executive Director of an organization called I Stand With Israel in Nigeria. Wednesday, I arrived in Israel and when I arrived, I got to understand that some bishops from South Africa also arrived around the same time.

“And these bishops that arrived in Israel, they were in Israel for a different purpose. They were in Israel for a negative purpose. They are in Israel to attack Israel. They are in Israel to condemn Israel. They are in Israel to call Israel, to declare Israel as an apartheid state.

“I am here to denounce, to contradict their claim to challenge them, to declare that these bishops are not sincere, their submissions are not substantiated and they are false. I repeat: they are not sincere, their submissions are not substantiated and their submissions are based on false.

“First of all, I want to say that Israel is not an apartheid nation, it’s not an apartheid state. There have been a lot of submissions. People have said it, but I’m not going to go into what people have said before now. But I am particular about this set of bishops from South Africa. That they are false and they are not sincere.

“First of all, for them to say that in Israel, they stole the lands in Israel and that is why they could come to Israel and come and attack Israel with the government that is involved. They can’t dare try that in Moscow, in Tehran or any other nation. If they go there and [unclear] the state and I’m sure the same plane that brought them in would take them back. So because Israel is a tolerant state, not an apartheid state, and that is why they could come and declare Israel as an apartheid state if it were in the territory of Israel.

“These bishops, they are not sincere. Why do I say they are not sincere? They are hypocrites. Hypocrites in the sense that in South Africa, currently ongoing is a violence called xenophobic violence [ violence against foreigners]. Xenophobic violence is so high right now in South Africa that I am in Nigeria on Monday, two Nigerians were stabbed to death, one in Pretoria and one in Cape Town. Two Nigerians were stabbed to death in the ongoing xenophobia crisis in South Africa.

“And these South African bishops left their home, left the crisis at home, ignore what was happening at home, and they travel all the way to Israel to come and condemn Israel. Can you see the hypocrisy?

“And my Bible tells me that you remove first the speck in your eyes before you can see to remove the log in another person’s eyes. Fortunately in Israel, there is no log in Israel. Israel is a free state. Israel is a nation that is tolerant, and that is why they can come and say it.

“Israel! I can see justice. There is human rights. There is freedom of speech in Israel. They came, they are arriving at the same time Israel just concluded an election, an election that was judged the best crisis-free, error-free election in this part of the world, where every tribe in Israel exercise their franchise.

“I saw it on the results sheet. Arabs were voted for. Arabs also voted, so can that be obtainable? That was not obtainable during the apartheid era in South Africa where some groups were excluded from exercising their franchise.

“And these bishops, you know, claiming that Israel is an apratheid state, even at the eve of elections that was free of fear, that was all-encompassing, that every tribe in Israel, both minority and majority were carried along, both the center-right, the center-left, everyone was carried along.

“And you dare come to say that the nation is an apartheid nation?! No! That is why I say [unclear]

“I’m a pastor. And I read my Bible. I’m sure what’s in the Bible concerning these bishops. You can find it. These bishops are hypocrites. You can find it in the Book of Numbers, chapter 22 and chapter 23.

“They are contractors. Balak contracted Baalam to come and attack Israel. So exactly the same thing that is operating now. I am sure they are being contracted.

“The Balak in this case is the BDS movement. The BDS in South Africa or somewhere else have sponsored this mission to come and attack Israel. And I know if that same story, no division against Israel, no chastisement against Jacob. I know that what they are saying will hold no water.

“I want to say that these bishops, they are false bishops because in the Bible, we as Christians, we are taught to love Israel and Israel is the apple of His eyes. Israel is the heartbeat of God. But these bishops are coming to curse the apple of His eyes. Curse not my anointed and do my prophets no harm.

“So they have come to harm Israel. I am sure they know that what they are doing is counterproductive to their own destiny, to their own spirituality.

“So I am saying that these bishops, they are not sincere, they are hypocrites, they are not of God. I am the pastor. I am declaring them contrary to what they have come to do in Israel. That it is based on falsehood. It is insincere and unfortunately, they are false prophets. They are false contractors who have come to destroy their own lives, thinking that they have come to destroy Israel.

“I will make your heirs as numerous as the stars of heaven, and assign to your heirs all these lands, so that all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your heirs.” Genesis 26:4 (The Israel Bible)

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Just in time for Israeli Independence Day on Wednesday evening, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) announced on Sunday that the number of Israelis increased by 177,000 (two percent) since last year and currently stands at 9,021,000.

The report stated that 6,697,000 Israelis are Jewish (74.2 percent) and 1,890,000 are Arab (20.9%). 434,000 people are non-Arab Christians or members of other ethnic groups. Seventy-five percent of the Jews in Israel are native-born Sabras.

That number includes 188,000 births and 47,000 deaths. 31,000 Olim (immigrants) arrived this year as part of the prophetic Ingathering of the Exiles.

The CBS estimated that the population will grow to 15.2 million people by Israel’s 100th birthday in 2048.

In 1948 there were 806,000 people in Israel and at the time and the global Jewish population was 11.5 million, meaning that six percent of the world’s Jews lived in Israel. The total number of Jews in the world is currently estimated to be 14.5 million meaning that 45 percent of world Jewry lives in Israel.

The statistical achievement has a somber side. Before six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, the population of world Jewry stood at 16.5 million, or .8 percent of the world population. Jews currently represent less than .2 percent of the world population.